Tent pegs ahoy! I always figured that there *had* to be bisexual brown and bronze riders, because I swear there are canonical references to browns and young bronzes flying greens. My main issue with the blue and green riders was how completely the worldbuilding buys into the whole seme/uke top/bottom thing with them. On the one hand, I don't remember green riders being effeminate in any way (no crystalline-orbed ukes on Pern), but on the other hand, the rigidly assigned and apparently inflexible sexual-position roles with blue riders being "the man" (except not as much of a man as a brown or bronze rider) and green riders being "the woman" (except still more masculine than female gold riders in that their dragons still breath fire and fly against thread)... those are not exactly progressive. Though in the 70s, when Dragonflight and Dragonquest were published, I guess maybe they were.
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Date: 2010-02-09 09:41 pm (UTC)Tent pegs ahoy! I always figured that there *had* to be bisexual brown and bronze riders, because I swear there are canonical references to browns and young bronzes flying greens. My main issue with the blue and green riders was how completely the worldbuilding buys into the whole seme/uke top/bottom thing with them. On the one hand, I don't remember green riders being effeminate in any way (no crystalline-orbed ukes on Pern), but on the other hand, the rigidly assigned and apparently inflexible sexual-position roles with blue riders being "the man" (except not as much of a man as a brown or bronze rider) and green riders being "the woman" (except still more masculine than female gold riders in that their dragons still breath fire and fly against thread)... those are not exactly progressive. Though in the 70s, when Dragonflight and Dragonquest were published, I guess maybe they were.